Famous quotes containing the words secretary, acting and/or state:

“... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the bosss moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.”—Anne Bogan, U.S. executive secretary. As quoted in Working, book 1, by Studs Terkel (1973)

“The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbos Camille pale.”—Helen Hayes (19001993)

“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”—Samuel Beckett (19061989)